Saturday, October 28, 2006

Here's my version of a Grand Funk Railroad standard (the tune for which can be found here) from the Arena Rock days of the early 1970s, when bands filled entire stadiums with tens of thousands of screaming fans and went off on long musical excursions to weird places. It's my take on Smirky Boy's current predicament as he and his party find themselves adrift on a sea of voter anger, mired in scandal, corruption, malaise, and with a dispirited, disaffected base:

There are too many people in this country, in my opinion. There is no way you can effectively and efficiently govern a country of 300 million people.

This is part of the problem of trying to maintain our vast economic empire. It's too big for its own good and in the end, it will be our undoing unless we can divest ourselves of it and step down out of the catbird seat.

We shouldn't have been there in the first place anyway. It's time to step aside.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

FoleyGate: The Karma Fairy Giveth, and the Karma Fairy Taketh Away

This is a gift. Our old friend the Karma Fairy has come along and ripped away the nice, neat facade the Republicans have manufactured to cover the real face of their party and exposed the steaming, malodorous pile of horse manure underneath the mask.

Here we have a guy (Mark Foley) who regularly trolled the internet, looking for teenaged boys to be his next victims. And the "leadership" of the House did nothing to stop him or alleviate the situation by asking him to resign. They knew about this for more than a year and they did nothing.

This man is a serial pedophile who may have hurt, mentally and emotionally, many young men who put their trust in him. The Republicans can't blame this on the Clenis. Bill Clinton had nothing to do with this nor was any Democratic office-holder involved.

They own this scandal lock, stock, and barrel. All we have to do a mere month out from the election is remind people of who they're supporting when they support Republicans.

These people are hypocrites who have shown time and again that they can't be trusted with power. It's long past time to kick them out of the halls of power and send them to the curb to be thrown out with the other garbage of history into that famous dustbin of history.

When they tell voters that they are "Keeping Us Safe From The Terrorists" we just have to come back with "And you are you doing about pedophiles.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

It's Official: They (The Republican Party) Stole Ohio in 2004

Have you finished reading the article? Good, then consider the implications of it. If you've not read it, go back and do so forthwith, we can wait.

For starters, Kenneth Blackwell, the Secretary of State for Ohio, a Republican activist, and the man in charge of Bush's 2004 campaign in that state, should be sitting in jail right now for breaking innumerable campaign laws, ethics violations, and electoral fraud on a massive scale.

George Walker Bush is not the legitimate occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This article proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Short of someone coming forward and confessing to his or her role in the 2004 election theft, this is as close as we will ever get to a genuine 'smoking gun' in this case.

The Republican Party stole the 2004 election in Ohio from John Kerry. Period. There is no question, there can be no doubt, there can be no second-guessing about this. This is now an established fact.

The question now before us is this: what do we do about it? If this had happened in another nation, we would have taken to the streets and demanded the immediate resignation of an illegitimate government that had usurped the right of the People to govern themselves.

We can't bury this away or pretty it over. It is the elephant in the national living room we can no longer ignore and/or pretend it doesn't exist.

George Walker Bush and his minions do not legitmately occupy the halls of power and they should be removed forthwith so we can reclaim our government. To do anything less will be to spit on the graves of those brave Americans who gave their lives to purchase freedom from tyranny and oppression so that we could be a free people.

George Walker Bush is a liar, a fraud, a thief, and a war criminal to boot. He does not deserve our support (if he ever did at all, a proposition I find highly offensive on its face) and we should not support him or prop him up any further. He is a liar and to call him anything but that is to participate in the lie.

Our government does not belong to us at the moment. It is being run by a bunch of greedy oligarchs bent on draining the United States treasury dry in their quest for unlimited power and influence and to permanently extend the American Empire's reach to every corner of the globe.

These people are criminals who should be brought before the International World Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We have to stop these people before they destroy what's left of our country.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

The Gulag Archipelago, Redux?

Did anyone ever read The Gulag Archipelago, the book written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the network of prison camps in the old Soviet Union into which the KGB would put dissidents and anyone else opposed to the Soviet Union?

That was a really, really scary book. What is really scary though is that it looks like we are creating our own Gulag Archipelago, only this one is not inside the United States, it is spread all over the world.

We now have our own network of concentration camps scattered in U.S. bases all around the world, islands of inhumanity beyond the reach of American or international law where we can torture prisoners and no one is the wiser.

Wake up, people! Our country is in peril of losing its soul because of the crimes being committed in our names. This is a little bit more imporant that who Paris Hilton is "servicing" who will be the next American Idol.

This is beyond horrible. It's a war crime and the people responsible must and will be punished.